Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?